Cloud of Sparrows/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Purity Sue: Sort of - poor old Emily's innocence, virtue, beauty and magnetism to misfortune are so extreme as to border on the parodic, yet all she gets for it is condescenscion from the other characters and even, it seems, from the author, and, beyond the scope of the novel, an early and painful death.